Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closing number ("something benedictory") for Tallulah Bankhead's The Big Show last fall, he has been flooded with up to 2,000 fan letters a week. Once when he tried "to give it a little beat," the letters demanded that he "quit jazzing up that hymn." Says somewhat surprised Composer Willson, who based the song on his mother's parting blessing to her Mason City Sunday-school pupils: "It's not a hymn, it's not hillbilly, it's not pop, but it does for all of them...
There is no compulsory chapel, but some dormitory members join in a hymn of thanks before the evening meal. There are few formal house meetings, but girls in many of the dormitories take advantage of pre-dinner gatherings to arise and inquire as to the whereabouts of a strayed black Schaeffer fountain...
Novelty numbers will feature the singing. They include "Casey Jones," the "Old Harvard Medley," and the Harvard Hymn to open the program. G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music, will direct the glee club as usual...
Sallow Julius Rosenberg and his wife were led away. Later, in their adjoining cells, the Rosenbergs sang to each other: her choice was Puccini's One Fine Day, his The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...doctor has analyzed the anti-popery porter [and found it produces] a disposition to bowels particularly lax, an inclination to pravity and to singing praises of the Lord through the nose." The trouble was, he said, that Guinness had its porter makers "mash up stereotype Protestant Bibles and Methodist hymn books . . . thus impregnating, in the act of fermentation, the volatile parts of the porter with the pure ethereal essence of heresy...